This is part 3 and the conclusion of our interview with with Morgan and Lee Grant Irons on sustainable environmental systems and terraforming.

Morgan is a Soil and Crop Sciences Ph.D. candidate in the Lehmann Lab at Cornell University, where her research focuses on microbial-adhesion mechanisms and organo-mineral, organo-organic interactions in soil aggregates and their effects on soil organic carbon sequestration under Earth gravity and microgravity.

Lee Grant Irons is a scientist and engineer, with experience in the fields and industries of space plasma and computational physics, nuclear power design and operations, radioactive and hazardous waste management, environmental remediation, and large-scale engineering and construction projects. As the Executive Director of the non-profit Norfolk Institute, he is working on the existential challenges of human sustainability on Earth and in space.

In this episode, cohosts Tom Hill and Eleanor O’Rangers conduct a “lightning round” of questions and answers with their guests. While the answers were much more involved than a typical lightning round… that’s OK—because we had the opportunity to discuss the Martian, musings on a Biosphere 3… and the subject of… biosolids.

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Additional links of interest related to our interview with Morgan and Lee Grant Irons:

Link to the paper referred to during the interview: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2021.789563/abstract

Morgan's social media where you can follow her research:

Instagram: astroecologist

Twitter: @Astroeco_Morgan

Facebook: www.facebook.com/astroeco.morgan/

Research Gate profile links for even more supplemental material related to the podcast:

www.researchgate.net/profile/Lee-Irons

www.researchgate.net/profile/Morgan-Irons

Norfolk Institute: www.norfolkinstitute.org